Break’s Over! Monsters at Work Sets Disney Channel Move For It's Season 2 Debut
Monsters at Work, returns for season two with a special two-episode premiere on Friday, April 5 (8 p.m. EDT) on Disney Channel as the series moves to the Disney Channel Original branding.
Subsequent airings of the season will move to Saturdays, with two new episodes launching each week beginning at 10 a.m. EDT on Disney Channel and Disney XD, Season 2 will stream Sunday, May 5 on Disney+.
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Season 2 guest stars reprising their roles from the Monsters, Inc. franchise include Aubrey Plaza as Claire Wheeler, Nathan Fillion as Johnny Worthington III and Bobby Moynihan as Chet Alexander. Additional guest cast includes Jennifer Coolidge, Rhys Darby, Janelle James, Jenifer Lewis, Ali Wong, Bowen Yang, Paula Pell, Danny Pudi, Cody Rigsby, Jimmy Tatro, Danny Trejo, Joe Lo Truglio and Alan Tudyk.
Brand extensions for the series include a upcoming multiple-single soundtrack with two original songs by Dominic Lewis (Walt Disney Animation Studios "Baymax!", "DuckTales" franchise) from Walt Disney Records slated for the summer.
"L’amore non inizia e non finisce nel modo in cui pensiamo. L’amore è una battaglia, l’amore è una guerra; l’amore è crescere." (James Baldwin)
E anche quando sembra finito, l'amore rivela la sua vera natura. Capisci sulla tua pelle che di base esso è come un elastico invisibile e lunghissimo. Appena pensi di essertene liberato infatti, senti questa sua presa improvvisa e fortissima sulla schiena che ti attira nuovamente, inesorabilmente verso quella brunetta apparentemente anonima che tiene il tuo cuore in pugno.
Full crew list! With names, ranks, and ages! (tho some have less detailed portraits since they've only really shown up in the background at this point). I'll update periodically with better pics.
Name: Barzillai Waite
Rank: Captain
Age: 46
Name: Adelaide Waite
Rank: Captain's wife
Age: 34
Name: Eric Mathews
Rank: 1st mate
Age: 32
Name: Ezra Carter
Rank: 2nd mate
Age: 25
Name: Charles Allen
Rank: 3rd mate
Age: 34
Name: Lawrence Manner
Rank: Greenhand
Age: 26
Name: Josué Cabral
Rank: Ordinary
Age: 22
Name: Bastien Addo
Rank: Ordinary
Age: 28
Name: James Barnard
Rank: Ordinary
Age: 29
Name: Joseph O'Reilly
Rank: Ordinary
Age: 23
Name: Jackson Pells
Rank: Greenhand
Age: 17
Name: Silas Dickey
Rank: Greenhand
Age: 16
Name: Enoch Pike
Rank: Cooper and Carpenter
Age: 32
since yall seem to love the sleepovers, i present to u all... friday the 13th sleepover weekend >:3 normal guidelines apply! feel free to send in drabble prompts, rambles/thoughts, fmks, etc. for any horror characters!
all characters are allowed but the only ones i'll be WRITING for will be:
scream; billy, stu, randy, sidney, dewey, tatum, mickey, charlie
final destination; alex, tod, ian, erin, carter, kevin
house of wax; bo, vincent, lester, nick
the lost boys; david, paul, marko, dwayne, michael
saw; amanda, matt, schenk
cabin in the woods; marty, curt, holden
ahs; tate, kit, kyle, jimmy, james
misc; daniel le domas, brahms heelshire, jason dean, david mccall, rex (my little eye,) sam (ginger snaps,) joel (smile,) colin gray, george + papillion (as above so below,) emmett dewitt, mike milch, the man (hush,) pelle, joe goldberg, the grabber, specs, ed warren, jackson rippner (red eye)
+ i can assure you all that the previous requests from the gosling sleepover will be finished soon! i just wanted to do a halloween themed weekend before the szn ends 👻
Through writing, actor Zawe Ashton is slowly shifting her role from object to subject.
Words by Hettie O’Brien. Photography by Pelle Crépin. Styling by Holly White. Hair by Bjorn Krischker. Makeup by James O’Riley.
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The work of a convincing performer is to make a practice of disjunction, blurring fact and fiction until it’s no longer clear where the performance ends. Zawe Ashton, an actor and writer from East London, has been performing for so long that she sometimes feels as though she has “just woken up.” “There has been this eye, this gaze, that has followed me since birth,” she says. This is what it is to have grown up as a child actor, an experience that would be strange, were Ashton to have ever known anything different.
It’s only now, at the age of 37, that Ashton feels she has managed to “reshuffle the cards,” as she puts it. We’re speaking over Zoom: Ashton from the northwest London home she shares with her fiancé, the actor Tom Hiddleston, and me from an office room that I describe, when she asks, as a “Zoom booth.” “Are they the new thing? They sound sexy,” Ashton says with characteristic provocation. “They sound like the new location for a fresh scandal to me. It happened in a Zoom booth!”
There is a sense that runs through Ashton’s work of someone chafing at the limits of their discipline. She is best known in the US for her role in Velvet Buzzsaw, a satirical horror film set in the Los Angeles art world in which she starred alongside Jake Gyllenhaal. She grew up in Hackney, East London (her parents were both schoolteachers; her mother is Ugandan, her father English) and attended Anna Scher, a theater school in Islington that banned the words “star” and “fame” from the classroom: Stars burn out, Scher taught them, but the career of an actor persists regardless of fame.
Ashton’s first notable role was in the British kids’ TV show The Demon Headmaster. In her early 20s, she took bit parts in crime dramas and hospital soaps; her break came when she was cast, at 27, as the chaotic, drug-taking, straight-talking student Vod in the series Fresh Meat. One article from the time suggested Ashton was “the coolest thing on TV right now.” But Ashton felt herself growing increasingly frustrated. “I hit a wall in my life—whether it was burnout, or [an] existential crisis, where I was like, Hold on a minute . . . . I’ve spent the past 30-something years performing, and I have no idea who for.”
What Ashton really wanted to do, she tells me, was to be a writer. In the basement, her mother still keeps a box of the stories Ashton wrote as a child, including one, from when she was six, about a dinosaur having breakfast with Elizabeth Taylor. “I think language, and how surreal and expressive language is, has always been part of my wanting to be in this world.” So, alongside her acting jobs, Ashton wrote a play. For All the Women Who Thought They Were Mad centered on the experiences of Black women in the corporate workplace and was praised for its darkly comic study of prejudice when it was staged at the Hackney Showroom in 2019.1 She also wrote a pilot for a TV drama about a woman having an early midlife crisis. “I was treated extremely badly at the hands of television executives,” she says. The pilot was passed over, and Ashton “put it in a drawer because it was just too traumatic.”
A book agent read that defunct script, and asked if Ashton would consider authoring something longer. “It’s one of the hardest, best things I’ve done,” she says of the resulting book, Character Breakdown, a playful, tragicomic account of an unnamed protagonist’s acting career. “So much of my life has been scripted; so much commitment has been to saying other people’s words and inhabiting other women,” she explains. “I thought . . . I can sit down and write this without anyone giving me permission.” Writing was an opportunity to stop acting—for a while. Ashton spent some time living in Margate, a blustery seaside town popular with people priced out of London. She nicknamed the book, which took two years to finish, “the cockroach in the nuclear disaster of my life.” For a while, it felt like the only continuity she could grasp at.
Character Breakdown defies the very definition of the word order—it is composed of fragmentary conversations retold in a weaving chronology. The protagonist receives different character synopses that are irritatingly sexist (a silent woman in a civil rights protest, a sexy spy, a dead body on a mortuary slab). She takes calls from her agent, sips lukewarm wine, changes her hair to appease casting directors and remembers being bullied at school after first appearing on TV. It is loosely fictionalized: Ashton says that if the book seems like an “actor’s memoir,” she has “done something very wrong.” “It was an attempt, or an opportunity, to try and crack open the difference between fact and fiction before slamming them wholeheartedly back together again,” she explains.
Although magnified in the acting industry, the banal occurrences of casual misogyny and racism that Ashton’s protagonist endures resonate far beyond the book. “Thinking about acting became like a blueprint for a way that I could look at my experience as a woman in the world,” she says. She missed her publisher’s first deadline, a misstep that turned into a gift. By the time Ashton submitted the manuscript, revelations of sexual violence in the film industry had started to break. “Me Too really reframed my writing completely, because I thought, No one is going to want to hear from an actress about stuff that’s gone down and how it might relate to the wider world. And suddenly it was all anyone wanted to hear.”
We’re speaking a month before the release of Mr. Malcolm’s List, a sugar-frosted Regency rom-com in which Ashton plays a lead role. The film revolves around the wayward schemes of Ashton’s character, Miss Julia Thistlewaite, and will please anyone who enjoyed Bridgerton.2 In period-drama obsessed Britain, it would have been unthinkable for a mixed-heritage British woman to land this role even five years ago. The multiracial elite portrayed in Mr. Malcolm’s List is a fantasy that omits the reality of colonial racism in Regency Britain, casting actors of color as dukes and duchesses. “There is a lucrative market . . . . for the depiction of racial difference in the absence of racial inequality,” the British author and journalist Gary Younge recently wrote of Bridgerton, taking issue with the genre. Ashton is critical of this argument. “What’s crazy is there’s only a handful of [similar] shows,” she says. “When you get real diversity is when there are so many . . . . that some can show one aspect [of history], some can show another aspect, and this is a spectrum.”
The protagonist of Character Breakdown reflects that “nothing good comes of being visible.” Together with this film, and her forthcoming role as a Marvel villain, Ashton seems poised to become the kind of highly visible celebrity who occupies a different plane of existence: rich, distant and chauffeured.3 Yet that’s not how she comes across in person. She is open and disarming, throwing back bigger questions to those I ask. I wonder if she enjoys the control of writing in her own words, as opposed to speaking those of others. “It doesn’t even feel like control,” she says. Ashton tells me about the American visual artist Lorraine O’Grady (about whom she made a film for the Tate). “She wanted to play with the idea of being subject and object,” Ashton says. “You want to shift the lens, shift the perspective on your work and life as much as you can. And that’s how I feel.”
La sua mutilazione e la sua morte coronavano così l’immagine di lei alle prese con una tecnologia in collisione, divenivano celebrazione delle sue membra individuali e delle sue superfici facciali, dei suoi gesti e delle sfumature della sua pelle. Ciascuno degli spettatori doveva essersi portata via dal luogo dell’incidente un’immagine della violenta trasformazione di lei, del complesso di ferite fondenti insieme la sessualità di lei e la dura tecnologia dell’automobile. Ciascuno di loro avrebbe congiunto la propria fantasia, le tenere membrane dei propri tessuti mucosi, i propri fasci di tessuto erettile, alle ferite di codesta attricetta; e questo, per il tramite della propria auto, toccando tali ferite nel guidare in un intrico di posizioni stilizzate. Ciascuno avrebbe posato le labbra sulle aperture sanguinanti [...] premuto le palpebre contro il tendine esposto dell’indice di lei e il dorso del pene eretto sulle sfondate pareti laterali della sua vagina. Lo scontro automobilistico aveva così reso possibile l’auspicata unione finale tra l’attrice e i membri del suo pubblico.
Monsters At Work - NYCC 2023 Panel Screens First Two Episodes Alongside Guest Cast List
Monsters at Work executive producer Kevin Deters revealed the second season guest cast today at New York Comic-Con, along with a sneak peek screening of the first two episodes ahead of its debut in 2024.
The special announcement was that among the guest stars on season two will reprise their roles from Monsters University with Aubrey Plaza (The White Lotus) as Claire Wheeler, Nathan Fillion (ABC’s The Rookie) as Johnny Worthington III, and Bobby Moynihan (DuckTales) as Chet Alexander.
Additional guest cast includes Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus), Rhys Darby (Our Flag Means Death), Janelle James (Abbott Elementary), Jenifer Lewis (Walt Disney Animation Studios "The Princess and The Frog"), Ali Wong (Beef), Bowen Yang (Saturday Night Live), Paula Pell (Saturday Night Live), Danny Pudi (DuckTales), Cody Rigsby (Peloton instructor, Author, TV personality), Jimmy Tatro (ABC’s Home Economics), Danny Trejo ("Big City Greens" Franchise), Joe Lo Truglio (Walt Disney Animation Studios "Wreck It Ralph") and Alan Tudyk (Walt Disney Animation Studios "Wish").